Weirdo 1981 #9 First Printing - back issue - $14.00
Plea to buy Weirdo
Comment on the alleged relationship between Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors.
A collection of ugly men and their trades.
Behind the scenes in the elf household.
The trials of having an infant child.
Big Bitch is on Trashman's trail to retrieve a serum.
Hannah ponders the sanctity of life
Peter's owner is trapped by a group of rogue penises.
Doggo delivers some industrial salvage that Mode passes off as art.
Vignettes from the life of a 1920s jazz musician.
The faults of a geek husband.
Dori's experience with swingers.
Fred finds the paper boy a nuisance
The modern boy rails against society.
R. Crumb's last issue as editor. 2nd printing: ? (3.95 USD)
- - Cover design resembles early issues of Mad as a Magazine. Letters page includes comments from Jay Lynch, Larry Marder and Drew Friedman. Robert Crumb's final issue as editor
- Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn - Brief text accompanied by three photographs.
- Weirdo Number 9 - Includes letters from Tom Christopher (Vashon, WA); Jay Lynch; Dave Kempker (Folsom, CA); Maxon Crumb; Roger Carrington (Fairfax, CA); Don Kochi (Los Angeles); Larry Marder; Joe Paulino (Berkeley, CA); Geoff Burkman (Dayton, OH); Rudy Rucker (Lynchburg, VA); Jean-Francois Duval; John Jayman (Montague, Mass); C.S. Duncan (Orland, CA); Drew Friedman; Dan Slavin (Cerritos, CA); George Parsons (Nevada City, CA); John Terrorist (NY, NY). The masthead drawing and a spot illustration only are reprinted in The Complete Crumb vol. 15.
- - Ad for back issues of this magazine.
- Elf-Squelch - A parody of ElfQuest.
- Max Crumb Art - Six illustrations. The titles are "Psychotic Fit on One Leg;" "Execution of Woman Communist Reactionary Police- Wuhan, China, 1927;" "Sex Act of the Aborigines;" "Dead Animal Smell and the Beloved;" "Dance of the Chinese Exhibitionist;" "St. Lazarus Contemplating the Image of a Goose."
- Cave Nudes - A short paragraph on top of the page states this was sent anonymously by an employee at Hanna-Barbera Productions with this note: "A fine funny fellow pinned copies of this up all over the producer's wing at H&B in order to create havoc and chaos. Nothing was ever said about them, but all were gone within an hour." Art credits are from a comment the artist left on a fellow animator's blog.
- Modern Boy - Strip concludes on the back cover. In b&w except for the final page.
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